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Viewing cable 08HOCHIMINHCITY136, TWO DISSIDENTS SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON, POSSIBLE

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
08HOCHIMINHCITY136 2008-02-01 06:52 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
VZCZCXRO6822
PP RUEHCHI RUEHDT RUEHNH
DE RUEHHM #0136/01 0320652
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
P 010652Z FEB 08
FM AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3672
INFO RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI PRIORITY 2472
RUCNASE/ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE
RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 3892
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HO CHI MINH CITY 000136 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS AND DRL/AWH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM VM
SUBJECT: TWO DISSIDENTS SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON, POSSIBLE 
TIES TO GOVERNMENT OF FREE VIETNAM 
 
REF: A. 07 HCMC 1220 AND PREVIOUS; B. HANOI 065 
 
HO CHI MIN 00000136  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
UNCLASSIFIED 
 
SIPDIS 
PROG 02/1/2008 
CG: KFAIRFAX 
POL: KBENNETT 
HANOI: BAGGELER, RFALZONE 
 
AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 
SECSTATE WASHDC ROUTINE 
INFO AMEMBASSY HANOI ROUTINE 
ASEAN MEMBER COLLECTIVE 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS AND DRL/AWH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM VM
 
SUBJECT: TWO DISSIDENTS SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON, 
POSSIBLE TIES TO GOVERNMENT OF FREE VIETNAM 
 
REF: A. 07 HCMC 1220 and previous; B. HANOI 065 
 
Summary 
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1. (SBU) Political dissidents Truong Quoc Huy and Hang Tan Phat 
were both sentenced to six years in prison and three years 
probation for "propagandizing against the Government" on January 
29, 2008.  Huy, a member of Bloc 8406, has been in custody since 
his August 2006 arrest during the height of the GVN crackdown on 
democracy groups.  In addition to being accused of disseminating 
pro-democracy propaganda, both Huy and Phat were accused of 
receiving funds from Nguyen Huu Chanh's Government of Free 
Vietnam (GFVN), an anti-Communist organization based in Orange 
County, CA, whose expressed aim is the overthrow of the 
Vietnamese Government.  Post has no independent confirmation of 
the two activists' ties to GFVN, which the GVN considers to be a 
terrorist organization, but believes the GVN-perceived links 
account for the above-average prison sentences handed down in 
their cases.  End summary. 
 
2. (SBU) On January 29, The HCMC People's Court sentenced 
democracy activists Truong Quoc Huy and Hang Tan Phat to six 
years in jail and three years' probation for "propagandizing 
against the Government" in violation of Article 88 of Vietnam's 
Penal Code.  Huy, a member of Bloc 8406, was found guilty of 
disseminating leaflets calling for democracy and publicizing 
negative information about the GVN's role in land rights 
disputes in Ho Chi Minh City, An Giang and Kien Giang provinces. 
 Official reports claim Huy and Phat were both funded by the 
anti-Communist Government of Free Vietnam (GVFN), an Orange 
County-based organization whose website states their mission is 
to "dismantle the suppressing (sic) system of Communist 
dictatorship of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by a peaceful, 
democratic, humanity (sic), practical and persistent approach." 
GVN security authorities consider the GFVN, along with the Viet 
Tan, to be terrorist organizations and the two groups are 
regularly described as such in government news services. 
 
3. (SBU) The official trial report in Cong An (Police) newspaper 
said the GFVN gave Phat 600 USD to pass out banknotes with 
anti-GVN writing on them and gave Huy 200 USD to disseminate 
2,500 anti-government leaflets in April 2005.  The report said 
Huy and Phat "slandered" the GVN for its democracy, human rights 
and religious freedom record and accused them of inciting the 
public to overthrow the GVN.  Post has no independent 
confirmation of Huy and Phat's involvement with the GFVN, but 
believes the Vietnamese government's connection of the activists 
to the GVFN explains the rather lengthy six year sentences 
handed down in their cases.  In the past year, other political 
activists convicted under Article 88 have received three-to-five 
years sentences and several previously convicted activists' 
sentences were reduced. 
 
4. (SBU) Mr. Huy's mother attended his trial and said he was 
represented by lawyer Tran Vu Hai, who had full access to the 
case documents and met with Huy six times before the trial. 
Though a Reuters news article claimed Huy and Phat pleaded 
guilty, Huy's mother said he pleaded not guilty and spoke in his 
own defense, defiantly asking the Court why Viet Tan activists 
who also disseminated pro-democracy information (Ref. B) were 
released while Huy, who did the same thing, was put in prison. 
(Note:  Huy was referring to Viet Tan members Leon Trung and 
Nguyen Thi Than Van, who were arrested in HCMC on November 17, 
2007 for disseminating pro-democracy pamphlets, then released 
and deported about one month later.  Four other alleged Viet Tan 
 
HO CHI MIN 00000136  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
activists arrested on the same date remain in custody.  End 
note) 
 
5. (SBU) Huy's mother said she planned to ask her son to appeal 
the sentence, though his lawyer has declined to continue working 
on his case.  Mr. Huy's legal fees were paid by fellow Bloc 8406 
member Dr. Nguyen Chinh Ket, a prominent dissident who fled 
abroad in 2007 under an outstanding arrest warrant in Vietnam. 
 
BACKGROUND ON GVFN 
------------------ 
6. (SBU)  The alleged ties between the defendants and the 
Government of Free Viet Nam (GVFN) almost certainly played a 
role in the precipitating the harsh sentences meted out. While 
the GVFN publicly claims to aim for political change in Vietnam 
via peaceful means, there is evidence members of the GVFN have 
plotted and carried out terrorist attacks on Vietnamese 
diplomatic missions in England, Thailand, Cambodia and the 
Philippines.  In October 2001, member Vo Duc Van was arrested at 
the Orange County Airport for the attempted bombing of the 
Vietnamese embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.  In November 2006, 
Thuong Nguyen Cuc Foshee, another member of GFVN, was convicted 
in Vietnam on terrorism charges for allegedly plotting to take 
over a local radio station and broadcast anti-communist 
messages.  Mrs. Foshee was released and deported a month later. 
Nguyen Huu Chanh, the "Prime Minister" of GFVN, is also under 
suspicion of being involved in the Bangkok bombing and wanted by 
the GVN on charges of arms trafficking and acts of terrorism. 
Recent press reports indicate that he is the subject of an FBI 
investigation and remains in U.S. custody. 
 
7. (U) This cable was coordinated with Embassy Hanoi. 
FAIRFAX